Mesa's school board may have just chosen the next leader of the biggest school district in Arizona.

At the tail end of its search for a superintendent, Mesa Public Schools' board voted unanimously Tuesday to negotiate a contract with Ember Conley, superintendent at a school district in Utah.

Conley told The Arizona Republic Wednesday that she accepted the offer to negotiate and is sure she and the board "will come to an agreement."

"I’m beyond excited," she said. "We’re thrilled and humbled to have this opportunity to come back to Arizona."

She said Mesa feels particularly unique to her in that despite the district's size, it has the "hometown feel and the support for public education."

The school board concluded its meeting around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday evening, after a marathon day of interviews with the three finalists for the job, a district spokeswoman confirmed. If contract negotiations are successful, Conley would replace outgoing superintendent Michael Cowan.

"Education has been my passion and it’s not just education," Conley said during a livestream Q&A on March 5. "It’s being able to help students to learn, to grow and to reach their dreams."

She is a graduate of Arizona State University, with a Doctor of Education from Argosy University in Phoenix, according to MPS. She was once interim superintendent of the Maricopa Unified School District, according to her LinkedIn page.

Conley is at the helm of the Park City School District in Utah, but announced she would leave in December, reported ParkRecord.com. Conley did not reveal why she was leaving Park City but admitted to the news site that some negative comments from community members weighed on her.

After two Park City students died of a drug overdose in 2016, Conley penned an op-ed about the aftermath of the incidents and said she became "a public voice on an issue I never wanted to address."

He is leaving to lead a Spanish-speaking mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"We are very, very honored and very, very thrilled to begin this next chapter of our lives," he told The Arizona Republic in November. "It comes with a price and the price is leaving a piece of my heart with this community."